How long before we hear cries for 'clone rights'? Or people who, before dying, 'transfer' their intelligence to a cloned body/brain and demand all the legal rights of their original body, despite the fact that they're just a copy?

I'm not much of a fan of Beta Colony, from Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan Saga, but damned if they don't have the clone-rights thing down cold. Clones have full rights, and if you clone yourself, the clone is your child.

We should probably work on getting something like that into law at some point, given how close we seem to be to actually making human cloning work. This is not to say that I think human cloning should be legal, but the law will still need some means of handling people produced by illegal cloning. This seems the most common-sense way of doing that.

Millennium:I'm not much of a fan of Beta Colony, from Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan Saga, but damned if they don't have the clone-rights thing down cold. Clones have full rights, and if you clone yourself, the clone is your child.

We should probably work on getting something like that into law at some point, given how close we seem to be to actually making human cloning work. This is not to say that I think human cloning should be legal, but the law will still need some means of handling people produced by illegal cloning. This seems the most common-sense way of doing that.

But if I'm cloned without my consent will I have to pay child support?